Contribution Quote by William Albert Allard

Photography by nature is spiritual, considering it comes from the darkness to show the light.

— Kevin Russo

The spiritual aspect of my work has more to do with the sense that things in the world can be perceived and accepted as…

— Abelardo Morell

For spiritual companions I have had the many artists who have relied on nature to help shape their imagination. And their most elaborate equipment…

— Sam Abell

If you're a photographer, you end up being the raw creative force that allows other people to see what kind of narrative you want…

— Cole Sprouse

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to…

— Ansel Adams

A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

If the photographer is to create works that will stand for his spirit in the same way as artists in other genres, he must…

— Yukio Mishima

Photography is inextricably linked with life; the photographer is not invisibly behind the camera but projecting a life-attitude through the lens to create an…

— Bill Jay

It is the purpose of life that each of us strives to become actually what he or she is potentially. Each photographer, then, should…

— David Hurn

More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it…

— Beaumont Newhall

Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.

— John Szarkowski

Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator…

— Barbara Kruger